In our second post on documents related to U.S.-China negotiations on China's accession to the GATT/WTO, we describe an early U.S. internal message that sets out the key U.S. priorities and the U.S. desire to coordinate with other governments.

Through a records request at the U.S. National Archives, we obtained a number of documents related to U.S.-China negotiations on China's accession to the GATT/WTO. In the coming months, we will do a series of posts about these documents. This is the first in